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“Maybe tears were something you caught. Like the flu.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You should just sit them down and make them tell you. Make them be adults."

"You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“The Ari I used to be didn't exist anymore. And the Ari I was becoming? He didn't exist yet.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“No wonder I stopped keeping a journal. It was like keeping a record of my own stupidity.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“As far as I was concerned, the sun could have melted the blue right off the sky. Then the sky could be as miserable as I was.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I live in an ecotone. Employment must coexist with goofing off. Responsibility must coexist with irresponsibility.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“Talking doesn't help everybody. "Not that you'd know." Yeah. Not that I'd know.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“You can't make anyone be an adult. Especially an adult.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I got to thinking that poems were like people. Some people you got right off the bat. Some people you just didn't get--and never would get.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I renamed myself Ari.

If I switched the letter, my name was Air.

I thought it might be a great thing to be the air.

I could be something and nothing at the same time. I could be necessary and also invisible. Everyone would need me and no one would be able to see me.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I wondered what that was like, to hold someone’s hand. I bet you could sometimes find all of the mysteries of the universe in someone’s hand.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“This is my problem. I want other people to tell me how they feel. But I'm not so sure I want to return the favor.”
― Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe

“I would always be afraid: afraid of saying the wrong thing, of using an exaggerated tone, of dressing unsuitably, of revealing petty feelings, of not having interesting thoughts.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Everything is interesting if you know how to work on it.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“We had grown up thinking that a stranger must not even touch us, but that our father, our boyfriend, and our husband could hit us when they liked, out of love, to educate us, to reeducate us.”
― Elena Ferrante, The Story of a New Name

“Nino has something that's eating him inside, like Lila, and it's a gift and a suffering; they aren't content, they never give in, they fear what is happening around them.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“When there is no love, not only the life of the people becomes sterile but the life of cities.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“She meant something different: she wanted to vanish; she wanted every one of her cells to disappear, nothing of her ever to be found. And since I know her well, or at least I think I know her, I take it for granted that she has found a way to disappear, to leave not so much as a hair anywhere in this world.”
― Elena Ferrante, My Brilliant Friend

“...maybe, in the face of abandonment, we are all the same; maybe not even a very orderly mind can endure the discovery of not being loved.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“People died of carelessness, of corruption, of abuse, and yet, in every round of voting, gave their enthusiastic approval to the politicians who made their life unbearable.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“And no one knew better than I did what it meant to make your own head masculine so that it would be accepted by the culture of men; I had done it, I was doing it.”
― Elena Ferrante, Those Who Leave and Those Who Stay

“Art was as much in the activity as in the results. Works of art were not just the finished product, but the thought, the action, the process that created them.”
― Jean M. Auel, The Mammoth Hunters